RaveThe Herald Scotland (UK)... brilliant, bracing ... nuanced and wide-ranging. Tooze has the impressive ability, as a writer, to contextualise historical events as they unfold ... Tooze’s assessment of China’s post-Covid ascent may be overstated. How much of the CCP’s rhetoric of recovery should we take at face value? But his damning appraisal of the West is impossible to refute. We knew another major pandemic was coming and we had the resources to cope.
